Alternate Ending to Romeo and Juliet
By Presley Schiberl

This change takes place where Friar Larry gives Juliet the potion. The Friar hands Juliet the potion, and she walks out. The Friar laughs evily because he didn’t give Juliet the potion he was supposed to. Instead, he gave her a truth serum. The whole picking out dresses for her wedding thing occurs, and she goes to bed. When Lady Capulet wakes Juliet up, Juliet looks at her with wide eyes and says, “How can I join Paris in holy matrimony, if I’m already married to my dearest Romeo?” Lady Capulet has a fit, and demands an explanation for Juliet’s horrid decision. Juliet tells her everything.
After Juliet is done being Tattle Tail of the Year, Lady Capulet explains everything Juliet had told her to Lord Capulet, and Lord Capulet orders for the removal of the Friar’s head, and sends out thirty-five men to apprehend Romeo, and bring him straight to justice. Juliet keeps on talking of bad things that she has done in her past years as a child to her mother. The Friar is brought before Lord Capulet, and begged for forgiveness. After his head was successfully removed in front of a live audience, Romeo was beheaded as well, and his head was set on fire.
Juliet kept talking, and Lord Capulet was getting rather annoyed that she would not shut up. He got to his ultimate boiling point, and ordered the execution of her as well. After the three people were killed, Count Paris had taken the liberty to see Juliet’s corpse in person, in front of everyone. He bows to his knees and weeps. He told everyone that he will miss Juliet more than anything.
After words, later at night, in his room, Count Paris hung himself. In the midst of the night, both Lord and Lady Capulet committed suicide as well, because they did not want to see Paris throw his life away over a backstabbing daughter. Friar John hears about all the death, and he decides to hide in his cell. First, he takes all the food he had in there, and throws it out for the beggars on the street. Second, he locks himself in, and throws the key outside of the cell to the point where he cannot reach. Thirteen days later, he died of starvation. Johnny thought of it as an extended fasting period.
All of Romeo’s friends and family decided not to end their lives, because they thought if they waited, the Capulets would be only a thing I the past, and the Montagues would rule! Eventually, that is what happened, and Romeo had a plague made in his honor. A couple years later, there was not one Capulet left on Earth.